Junior mystery/adventure fiction from talented children's writer weaves in
NZ history with contemporary themes: A kid dealing with the boredom of school
holidays, discovers outdoor adventure, mystery and unexpected friendship.
When 12-year-old Kathleen O'Donnell (known as Cricket) and her parents head to
uninhabited Jacob's Island for the whole summer holidays, Cricket fears she is
going to be bored out of her mind. No other kids mean no one to play with, and
no power means no technology! Instead she discovers a tragic shipwreck tale
behind the naming of the island, and that the island is potentially haunted by
the ghost of Jacob. Based on a real shipwreck, the Tararua, which claimed the
lives of 131 people in 1881.